The following books, written by or about current and former members of the School Staff, are held in the Historic Library & Rare Book Collection at Sherborne School:
Robert Anthony (Robin) ATTHILL (1912-1994)
Assistant master at Sherborne School, 1942-1948.
Robin Atthill, If Pity Departs: and other poems (London: Andrew Dakers Ltd., 1947). Inscribed ‘For Molly and Mac with love and best wishes from Robin for Christmas 1947’.
Joseph AYRES (?-1823)
Writing and mathematics master, c.1800-c.1819.
Joseph Ayres, The Young Ladies’ Practical Arithmetic (London: George B. Whittaker, 3rd ed., 1824). Presented to Sherborne School in 1895 by William Elton [1865-1931, Abbey House 1879-1883]
Joseph Ayres, The Young Gentlemen’s Commercial Arithmetic (Newbury: W. Pinnock, 3rd ed., c.1815). Book plate of William Elton [1865-1931, Abbey House 1879-1883]
Henry Howard BAKER (1902-1977)
Assistant master at Sherborne School (modern languages), 1929-1965.
H. Howard Baker, Aide-Mémoire vocabulaire de mots Franḉais groupés d’Après le sens (London: G. Bell & Sons Ltd., 6th impression. First published 1932).
H. Howard Baker, A Classified German Vocabulary (London: G. Bell & Sons Ltd., 1964 reprint. First published 1956).
Charles Lightfoot BARNES (c.1859-1940)
Assistant master at Sherborne School, 1889-1891.
C.L. Barnes, Rock History. A Concise Note-Book of Geology (London: Edward Stanford, 1884). Inscribed: ‘Sherborne School Field Society from the Author, March 7th 1889’. Presented by the author to Sherborne School, 1889.
James Robert Sterndale BENNETT (1847-1928)
Assistant master at Sherborne School (mathematics) and Director of Music, 1871-1877.
J.R. Sterndale Bennett, The Life of William Sterndale Bennett (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1907). Inscribed: ‘Presented to the Sherborne School Library by the author’s great-grandson, B.M. Sterndale Bennett, School House 1952-1957’.
William James BENSLY (1874-1943)
Assistant master, Sherborne School 1905-1913, 1919-1934.
W.J. Bensly (ed.), C. Iuli Caesaris commentariorum de bello civili liber primus/Caesar. Civil War. Book 1 (London: G. Bell & Sons, 1928)
Edward Stanley BLENKINSOP (1896-1981)
Assistant master, Sherborne School, 1944-1959.
E.S. Blenkinsop, Būrger’s Originality (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1936)
Reginald Theodore BLOMFIELD (1856-1942)
Official School architect, 1894-1936.
Sir Reginald Blomfield, Modernismus (London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1934). Donated to Sherborne School Library, 1935.
Richard A. Fellows, Sir Reginald Blomfield. An Edwardian Architect (London: A. Zwemmer Ltd., 1985)
Charles Lovell Fletcher BOUGHEY (1887-1934)
Headmaster, Sherborne School, 1928-1933.
C.L.F. Boughey, The Headmistress (A Comic Opera in two acts) (Marlborough: W. Gale, 1922). Music by J.W. Ivimey. [First performed at Marlborough College in Michaelmas term 1922, and at Sherborne School on 18-19 June 1931]. Inscribed ‘T.V.A. Brodie, 589, Priory’ and with the names of the cast: G.C. Turner esq., North, Leach, Ap Rhys Price, Wingfield, H.L.O. Flicker esq., Patteson.
John David BUCHANAN MBE (1916-2005).
Assistant Master, Sherborne School, 1948-1957.
John Buchanan, Operation Oakham (Wymondham: Sycamore Press Ltd., 1984). Inscribed ‘Sherborne School Library with warmest compliments John Buchanan, 17.06.2005.’
Stephen BYRNE (b.1966)
Assistant master, Sherborne School, 2009-.
Stephen Byrne & Mike Jay, Bristol Rovers Football Club. The Definitive History 1883-2003 (Tempus Publishing Ltd., 2003)
Stephen Byrne & Mike Jay, Bristol Rovers Players Who’s Who 1946-2018 (2018)
Alfred Charles CLAPIN (1826-1924)
Assistant master, Sherborne School, 1852-1854, 1856-1890.
A.C. Clapin, The School-Master Abroad in the Cotentin or, Sketches of Life and Scenery in Normandy (Sherborne: Chaffin & Son, 1887)
George Gordon COULTON (1858-1947)
Assistant master, Sherborne School, 1889-1892.
G.G. Coulton, Fourscore Years. An Autobiography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1943). Donated to Sherborne School Library by A.B. Gourlay, 1971.
G.G. Coulton, Public Schools and the Public Needs (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd., 1901)
Henry Martyn CUNDY (1913-2005)
Assistant master (Mathematics), Sherborne School, 1938-1967.
Martyn Cundy, The Faith of A Christian. An Outline of Christian Belief (London: The Inter-Varsity Fellowship, 1945). Inscribed: ‘Presented by the author: 19 January 1946. H.M.C.’
Bryan Thwaites, The School Mathematics Project 1961-1970. A decade of innovation and its sequel (CUP, 2012). Inscribed: ‘To Dominic Luckett with the best compliments of Bryan Thwaites in memory and appreciation of the great contribution made by Martyn Cundy of Sherborne School. April 2021.’
Alec Michael DAVIS (1942-2022)
Assistant master (mathematics), 1974-2002; rugby coach 1974-1979, 1988-1989.
Mike Davis & Donald Ireland, The Science of Rugby Football (London: Pelham Books Ltd., 1985)
Edwin DAVIS (1879-1933)
Senior Mathematics and Science master, Sherborne School, 1903-1933.
Edwin Davies, ‘Die geometrische Addition de Stäbe in der hyperbolischen Geometrie’, (Greifswald: Druck von Julius Abel, 1904). Presented to Sherborne School Library by the author, 10 March 1904. Ph.D. thesis.
Horace Dixon ELAM (1850-1916)
Assistant master, Sherborne School, May-December 1880.
Appears as Mr Olim in Ernest Raymond’s Mr Olim (1961).
Ernest Raymond, Mr Olim (London: Cassell, 1961), donated to the School library by A.B. Gourlay, 1971.
Donald Birkby EPERSON (1904-2001)
Mathematics master and School Chaplain, Sherborne School, 1927-1938.
D.B. Eperson, Music and Mathematics (The Book Guild Ltd., 2002)
D.B. Eperson, Patterns in Mathematics (Basil Blackwell, 1988)
D.B. Eperson, Reminiscences of Barchester in the Twentieth Century (2000)
Patrick Simon FRANCIS (b.1953)
Assistant master (history), Sherborne School, 1976- 2017.
Patrick Francis, Vivat Shirburnia. Sherborne School and the Great War, 1914-1918 (London & Oxford: Impress, 2014). Photography by David Ridgway.
Patrick Francis, Old Yet Ever Young. A New History of Sherborne School (Exeter: Short Run Press, 2020). Photography by David Ridgway.
Ruth Isabel Janet Diana Streatfeild GERVIS (1894-1988)
Art mistress, Sherborne School, 1941-1953.
Noel Streatfeild, Ballet Shoes (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd., 1954). Illustrated by Ruth Gervis [sister of Noel Streatfeild].
James Hamilton Percival GIBB (1919-2005)
Assistant master (History, English), Sherborne School, 1948-1980.
J.H.P. Gibb, ‘The Anglo-Saxon Cathedral at Sherborne. With an appendix on documentary evidence by R.D.H. Gem’, reprinted from The Archaeological Journal, Vol. 132, 1975.
J.H.P. Gibb, Fan Vaults and Medieval Sculpture of Sherborne Abbey. Photographs by John Keeling. (Sherborne: Friends of Sherborne Abbey, c.1980)
J.H.P. Gibb, The Book of Sherborne (Buckingham: Barracuda Books Ltd., 1981)
J.H.P. Gibb, ‘The Fire of 1437 and the Rebuilding of Sherborne Abbey’, extract from Journal of the British Archaeological Association, vol. 138 (1985)
J.H.P. Gibb, The Battle of the Fonts and the Great Fire of Sherborne Abbey (Sherborne: c.1985)
J.H.P. Gibb, ‘Hall House, Newland: A 14th-century Timber-framed Hall in Sherborne’, off-print from The Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, volume 106 (1984)
J.H.P. Gibb, The Almshouse of SS. John, Sherborne (Beric Tempest, Great Britain, c.1990)
J.H.P. Gibb, The Monastic Buildings of the Benedictine Abbey of Sherborne c.1530 (Sherborne: 1998)
J.H.P. Gibb, ‘The Saxon Cathedral at Sherborne: An Account of Excavations carried out by Sherborne School Archaeological Society 1964-1968’, reprinted from The Shirburnian, 1969.
J.H.P. Gibb, Sherborne Abbey Walk Round Guide (Sherborne: Friends of Sherborne Abbey, 1985)
J.H.P. Gibb, ‘A Sherborne Bone of Contention’, off-print from The Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society vol.118 for 1996.
J.H.P. Gibb, Sketches of Sherborne School (Sherborne: 1997)
J.H.P. Gibb & J. Hayward, The Stained Glass of Sherborne Abbey (Sherborne: Friends of Sherborne Abbey, c.1998)
J.H.P. Gibb, The Sherborne Conduit (Sherborne: Sherborne Museum, c.2003)
J.H.P. Gibb, The Medieval Castle at Dunster (n.d.). Presented to Sherborne School Library by the author.
David Frank GIBBS (1947-2016)
Assistant master (Economics), Sherborne School, 1973-1983.
D.F. Gibbs, A History of Cricket at Sherborne School (Sherborne: Sherborne School, 1980)
D.F. Gibbs, A History of (Rugby) Football at Sherborne School (Sherborne: Sherborne School, 1983)
A.B. Gourlay & D.F. Gibbs, Chief. A Biography of Alexander Ross Wallace 1891-1982 (Sherborne: Sherborne School, 1983)
D.F. Gibbs, In Search of Nathaniel Woodard: Victorian Founder of Schools (Andover: Phillimore & Co. Ltd., 2011)
Robert Sawers GLEN (1926-2008)
Assistant master (Classics), Sherborne School, 1960-1991.
R.S. Glen, The Two Muses. An Introduction to Fifth-Century Athens by way of the Drama (London: Macmillan, 1968)
Arthur Bellyse GOURLAY (1907-1976)
Assistant master (Classics, History, Philosophy), Sherborne School, 1929-1971.
A.B. Gourlay, A History of Sherborne School (Winchester: Warren & Son Ltd., 1951)
A.B. Gourlay, A History of Sherborne School (Sherborne: Sawtells Ltd., 2nd ed., 1971). Signed by the author.
A.B. Gourlay & D.F. Gibbs, Chief. A Biography of Alexander Ross Wallace 1891-1982 (Sherborne: Sherborne School, 1983)
A.B. Gourlay, A Short Guide to the Almshouse of SS. John Sherborne (Sherborne: The Masters and Brethren, 1967). Photographs by A.E. Rouse.
Vivian Hubert Howard GREEN (1915-2005)
Chaplain and History master, Sherborne School, 1942-1951.
V.H.H. Green, The Commonwealth of Lincoln College 1427-1977 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979)
V.H.H. Green, From St. Augustine to William Temple. Eight Studies in Christian Leadership (London: Latimer House Ltd., 1948). Inscribed: ‘To Sherborne School Library from the author, July 15th 1948.’
V.H.H. Green, The Hanoverians 1714-1815 (London: Edward Arnold Ltd., 1965). First published 1948.
V.H.H. Green, A History of Oxford University (London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1984)
V.H.H. Green, The Later Plantagenet’s. A Survey of English History between 1307 and 1485 (London: Edward Arnold Ltd., 1956)
V.H.H. Green, Luther and the Reformation (London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1964)
V.H.H. Green, Oxford Common Room (London: Edward Arnold Ltd., 1957)
V.H.H. Green, Religion at Oxford and Cambridge (London: SCM Press Ltd., 1964)
Christopher GREENFIELD.
Principal of Sherborne International, 1997-2013.
Christopher Greenfield (ed.), The Bridge: The Story of the International College at Sherborne (Sherborne: Sherborne School, 2000)
Christopher Greenfield (ed.), The Bridge To Success: The Story of the International College at Sherborne since 1977 (Sherborne: Sherborne School, 2008)
Hugo Daniel HARPER (1821-1895)
Headmaster, Sherborne School, 1850-1877.
J.N.L. Baker, Jesus College Oxford 1571-1971 (Oxford: 1971)
Iolo Davies, ‘A Certaine Schoole’. A History of the Grammar School at Cowbridge Glamorgan (Cowbridge: D. Brown & Sons Ltd., 1967)
L.V. Lester, A Memoir of Hugo Daniel Harper, D.D. (London: Longmans, Green and Col, 1896)
Mrs Ernest Stewart Roberts, Sherborne, Oxford and Cambridge (London: Martin Hopkinson Ltd., 1934)
Charles Jeremy HARVEY (b.1938)
Assistant master, Sherborne School, 1965-1974.
C.J. Harvey & J.R. Smalley, eds., Sherborne Poetry (Yeovil: Variprint Ltd., 1969). A collection of poetry by people who are connected with Sherborne.
Contributors:
Thomas A. Clark (poet, sometime resident in Sherborne): ‘Through 12 moons’, ‘The words leave quietly’.
Malcolm John Crayton (son of Masters’ Secretary, Sherborne School): ‘Life Alone’.
Monica Ditmas (Headmistress, Lord Digby’s School): ‘Voila!’
Clifford Paul Hancock (pupil at Sherborne School (School House) 1965-1971): ‘To Helen’ May 1969.
Andrew Charles Harvey (pupil at Sherborne School (Abbey House) 1965-1969).
Charles Jeremy Harvey (assistant master at Sherborne School 1965-1974): ‘Strange Stillness’, ‘Waiting’.
H.F.W. Holmes (assistant master at Sherborne School 1932-1980): ‘Fishing – a beginner’s day’, ‘Cassino Front, April 3rd, 1944’.
Richard Antony O’Neill Jerram (pupil at Sherborne School (Lyon House) 1964-1969).
Thomas Marris Kitwood (Chaplain and Assistant Master at Busago College, Muriri, Uganda. Formerly assistant master at Sherborne School 1960-1968): ‘A page from my journal, May 17, 1969’.
Hubert Rogers Moore (Head of English, Cranbook School. Formerly assistant master teaching English at Sherborne School 1958-1966): ‘Something for Nothing’, ‘The Assailants’.
Charles Napier (resident of Sherborne. Recent graduate of English of Exeter University): ‘The Legend of the three rebel souls’.
Robert A. Neale (Lecturer in English, Massey University, New Zealand. Formerly Head of English at Sherborne School 1959-1968): ‘The Dream of the Rood’ – a translation made for a recital of music and poetry given in Sherborne Abbey during Holy Week in 1968.
John Richard Smalley (assistant master at Sherborne School 1968-1970): ‘From the window’, ‘A moment’s consideration’.
Charles Verey (assistant master at Sherborne School 1967-1970): ‘The Last Supper’.
John Lawton Wilkinson (pupil at Sherborne School (Lyon House) 1966-1970): ‘Silver Bird’, ‘Silver Situation’.
James Ewart Crawford HENDERSON (b.1966) (OS)
Director of Music, Sherborne School 2005-2022; Executive Director of Music, Sherborne School 2022-.
James Henderson, The Organs of Sherborne School (Sherborne: 2012)
Oliver Deverell HOLT (1909-1997) (OS)
Assistant Master at Sherborne School 1946-1948
Oliver Holt, Nowell Smith and his Sherborne: A Memoir (Oxford: Oxonian Press, 1955). Signed by the author.
Oliver Holt, Pipers Hill: Memories of a Country Childhood (Marston Magna: Marston House, 1992)
Oliver Holt, Sherborne Abbey: a reflection (c.1994)
Oliver Holt, Three Sherborne Memoirs (1987). Includes ‘On First Coming to Sherborne: Some Drawings from Memory’, a talk given to the Sherborne Historical Society in October 1983′; ‘Littleton Powys’, a talk given to the Powys Society in September 1981; ‘Next Steps at Sherborne: More Drawings from Memory’, a talk given to the Sherborne Historical Society in December 1986. Presented to Sherborne School Library by the author, 14 March 1991.
Henry Robinson KING (1855-1935).
Assistant master at Sherborne School 1883-1925.
H.R. King, Myths from Pindar, chosen and edited by H.R. King (London: George Bell & sons, 1904). Inscribed by ‘O.G. Sherrard’
R.S. Thompson (ed.), Duffers Jubilee 1898-1948 (Sherborne: 1949). With foreword by Alexander Ross Wallace; ‘Odds and Ends’ by R.S. Thompson; ‘H.R.K.’ by Francis William King; ‘H.R.K. Sherborne and the Duffers’ by Cecil Day-Lewis; ‘H.R.K. Retrospect and Prospect’ by Geoffrey O’Hanlon.
John Robert LLOYD.
Assistant master, Sherborne School, 1962-1997.
J.R. Lloyd, Man and the ecosystem (Basingstoke: Macmillan Education Ltd., Foundations of Biology series, 1980)
Nigel W. LOWSON.
Assistant master, Sherborne School, 1984-1989.
Nigel Lowson, Structured Physical Geography Questions for GCE A-Level Courses (Burton upon Trent: Mercian Publications Ltd., 1984). Presented to Sherborne School Library by Robin Donnelly Macnaghten, 1988.
Stuart Petre Brodie MAIS (1885-1975)
Assistant master, Sherborne School, 1913-1917.
S.P.B. Mais, All The Days of My Life (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1937)
S.P.B. Mais, Buffets and Rewards. An Autobiographical Record (1937-1951) (London: Hutchinson, 1952)
S.P.B. Mais, A Chronicle of English Literature (London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1956)
S.P.B. Mais, Do You Know? The Question Book (London: Brentano’s Ltd., May 1927). Bequeathed to Sherborne School Library by M.E.K. Westlake.
S.P.B. Mais, The Education of a Philanderer (London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1919). Donated to Sherborne School Library by A.B. Gourlay, 1971. With a note by A.B. Gourlay ‘A tedious novel, but with an autobiographical element, revealing the author’s knowledge of Dorset and Sherborne.’
S.P.B. Mais, England’s Pleasance (London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 1935). Presented to Sherborne School by Sam Hey.
S.P.B. Mais, An English Course for Schools (London: Grant Richards Ltd., 2nd ed., September 1920)
S.P.B. Mais, Interlude (London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1917). Donated to Sherborne School Library by A.B. Gourlay, 1971.
S.P.B. Mais, A Public School in War Time (London: John Murray, 1916)
S.P.B. Mais, Some Books I Like (London: Richards Press Ltd., 1932). Dedicated ‘To my darling Priscilla on her 16th birthday with fondest love in the hope that she too will always like them as much as I do’.
S.P.B. Mais, S.O.S. Talks on Unemployment (London: Putnam, 1933)
S.P.B. Mais, This Unknown Island (London: Putnam, January 1934). Bequeathed to Sherborne School Library by Mrs Louisa Bow, September 1988.
Robson, Maisie. An Unrepentant Englishman: The Life of S.P.B. Mais, Ambassador of the Countryside (Rotherham: The King’s England Press, 2005)
Nicholas Shakespeare, Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France (London: Harvill Secker, 2013). Priscilla was the daughter of S.P.B. Mais and was born in Sherborne on 12 July 1916.
Frederick George MEE (1908-1991)
Assistant master, Sherborne School, 1934-1950.
Frederick G. Mee, Sound (London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1950). In the preface F.G. Mee thanks Dr H. Martyn Cundy of Sherborne, and Mr H.H. Brown of Sherborne for his photographs.
Robert Theodore MILFORD (1862-1935)
Assistant master (modern languages master), Sherborne School, 1910-1914.
R.T. Milford & D.M. Sutherland, A Catalogue of English Newspapers and Periodicals in the Bodleian Library 1622-1800 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1936)
Geoffrey O’HANLON MC (1885-1975)
Assistant Master, Sherborne School, 1908-1945. Housemaster of Westcott House 1920-1936. Governor of Sherborne School 1949-1968.
G. O’Hanlon, ‘A Plain History of the Sixth (Service) Battalion The Dorsetshire Regiment 1914-1919′, History of the Dorsetshire Regiment, 1914-1919, Parts 1, 2, 3 (Dorchester & London: 1933), presented to Sherborne School Library by G. O’Hanlon, 12 April 1933 (Library ref. LH 356.1)
Anon., History of the 50th Infantry Brigade 1914-1919. Printed at the OUP for Private Circulation, September 1919. Presented to Sherborne School Library by G. O’Hanlon, 1920. [Formed in September 1914, the 50th Infantry Brigade was made up of the 10th West Yorkshire Regiment, the 7th East Yorkshire Regiment, the 7th York and Lancaster Regiment, and the 6th Dorset Regiment. The volume includes map of the battles, and also an order of battle, alphabetical list of officers, casualties, honours and awards]
G. O’Hanlon, By-Ways in Dorset. Recollections of the Twenties. Edited version of a talk given by Geoffrey O’Hanlon to the Wesleyan Guild in Sherborne on 10 February 1931. Edited by Michael Hanson, May 1992.
Michael Hanson (ed.), Writings of Geoffrey O’Hanlon (April 1993)
Michael Hanson (ed.), Temporary Captain Geoffrey O’Hanlon, M.C., T.D. Sixth Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment. Diaries for 1914-1916 (2 August 1994)
Mungo Travers PARK (1842-1908)
Assistant master, Sherborne School, 1869-1880.
Geoffrey Faux, A Victorian Odyssey: The 1858-1872 Letters of Mungo Travers Park. (Privately published, 2017)
Louis Napoleon PARKER (1852-1944)
Director of Music, Sherborne School, 1873-1892, and Master of the 1905 Sherborne Pageant.
L.N. Parker, The Bracelet, a Tragic-Comedy (Sherborne: 1881). Signed by W.B. Wildman. Dedicated ‘To William B. Wildman, to whose friendly counsel and encouragement the completion of his play is entirely due, I dedicate whatever is good in it, in remembrance of many pleasant summer evenings. L.N.P. Sherborne, October 8, 1881’.
L.N. Parker, Disraeli. The Story of the Play and of the Film (London: The Readers Library Publishing Co. Ltd., n.d.) [George Arliss won an Oscar for his portrayal of Disraeli in the film Disraeli (1929) based on L.N. Parker’s script].
L.N. Parker, Drake. A Pageant-Play (London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1925). First published 1912. Dedicated to Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree.
L.N. Parker, In Taunton Vale: an original play in three acts (Sherborne: 1890). Inscribed ‘W.B. Wildman from Louis N. Parker. In grateful acknowledgement of the title. Ap.4,90’.
L.N. Parker, Several of My Lives (London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1928)
L.N. Parker, James Rhoades & Walter Raymond, The Sherborne Pageant (script) (Sherborne: F. Bennett, Printer, The Parade, 1905)
Cecil P. Goodden, The Story of the Sherborne Pageant (Sherborne: F. Bennett, The Parade, 1905) (no.227). With bookplate ‘Ex Libris Louis N. Parker’.
Tom W. PAYNE (b.1971)
English teacher, Sherborne School.
Ovid, The Art of Love (London: Vintage Books, 2011). Translated, annotated and introduced by Tom Payne, with a foreword by Hephzibah Anderson.
Littleton Charles POWYS (1874-1955) (OS)
Headmaster of Sherborne Preparatory School 1905-1923.
Littleton C. Powys, The Joy of It (London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1937). Presented to Sherborne School Library by Sam Hey.
Littleton C. Powys, The Joy of It (London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1937)
Littleton C. Powys, Still the Joy of It (London: MacDonald, 1956). Donated to Sherborne School Library by A.B. Gourlay, 1971)
Littleton C. Powys, The Letters of Elizabeth Myers (London: Chapman & Hall, 1951)
Littleton C. Powys, The Powys Family. Being a Lecture Given by Him to the Swansea and South Wales Bookman’s Association in May, 1945, with some additions. Inscribed ‘With all best wishes Littleton C Powys, Oct. 18 1952’. Presented to Sherborne School, October 1952.
Llewelyn POWYS (1884-1939) (OS)
Assistant master Sherborne Preparatory School, 1909.
Llewelyn Powys, Apples be Ripe (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1930)
Llewelyn Powys, A Baker’s Dozen (London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1941)
Llewelyn Powys, Black Laughter (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1924)
Llewelyn Powys, Black Laughter (London: Jonathan Cape, 1929)
Llewelyn Powys, The Cradle of God (London: Jonathan Cape, 1929). Ex Libris, A. Cope.
Llewelyn Powys, Damnable Opinions (London: Watts & Co., 1935)
Llewelyn Powys, Dorset Essays (Bristol: Redcliffe Press Ltd., 1983)
Llewelyn Powys, Earth Memories (Bristol: Redcliffe Press Ltd., 1983)
Llewelyn Powys, Ebony and Ivory (London: The Richards Press, 1960)
Llewelyn Powys, Henry Hudson (London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1927)
Llewelyn Powys, The Pathetic Fallacy. A Study of Christianity (London: Watts & Co., 1931)
Llewelyn Powys, Skin for Skin and The Verdict of Bridlegoose (London: The Bodley Head, 1948)
Llewelyn Powys, Somerset and Dorset Essays (London: Macdonald, 1957). With a foreword by John Cowper Powys.
Llewelyn Powys, Swiss Essays (London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1947)
Llewelyn Powys, Thirteen Worthies (Bristol: Redcliffe Press Ltd., 1983)
Kenneth Hopkins (ed.), Llewelyn Powys. A Selection from his Writings (London: Macdonald, 1952)
Louis Wilkinson (ed.), The Letters of Llewelyn Powys (London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1943)
Malcolm Elwin, The Life of Llewelyn Powys (London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1946)
Peter Foss (ed.), The Diary of a Sherborne Schoolboy: Llewelyn Powys’s Diary for 1903 (London: Cecil Woolf, 2005)
James RHOADES (1841-1923)
Assistant master, Sherborne School, 1880-1892.
James Rhoades, The City of the Five Gates (London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1913). Donated to Sherborne School Library by the author, 19 November 1913.
James Rhoades, Collected Poems (London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1925). Presented to Sherborne School Library by Mrs Rhoades, 1925)
James Rhoades, Collected Poems (London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1925). Presented by Alice Rhoades to H.R. Tate, March 1925.
James Rhoades, Dux Redux or A Forest Tangle. A Comedy (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1887). Donated to Sherborne School Library by A.B. Gourlay, 1971.
James Rhoades, The Georgics of Virgil. Translated into English Verse (London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881). Bequeathed to Sherborne School Library by A.H. Trelawny-Ross.
James Rhoades, The Georgics of Virgil. Translated into English Verse (London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881). Prize book awarded to Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947) in 1882 while a pupil at Harrow School.
James Rhoades, The Little Flowers of St Francis of Assisi and the Life of Brother Giles, rendered into English Verse by James Rhoades (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1925). Dedicated to Louis N. Parker. Donated to Sherborne School Library by Mrs Rhoades, 1925.
James Rhoades, O Soul of Mine! (London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1912). Donated to Sherborne School Library by the author, 19 November 1913.
James Rhoades, Poems (London: Macmillan & Co., 1870). Donated to Sherborne School Library by James Rhoades, June 1881.
James Rhoades, The Poems of Virgil, translated into English Verse by James Rhoades, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1921)
L.N. Parker, James Rhoades & Walter Raymond, The Sherborne Pageant (script) (Sherborne: F. Bennett, Printer, The Parade, 1905)
James Rhoades, Timoleon. A Dramatic Poem (London: Henry S. King & Col, 1875). Presented to Sherborne School Library by the author, June 1881.
James Rhoades, Words by the Wayside (London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1915). Includes selected Pageant Poems from Sherborne, Dover, Bury St Edmunds, York, Warwick, and Colchester.
John Patrick RILEY.
Assistant master, Sherborne School, 1956-1990.
Commanding Officer of the School CCF, 1966-1990.
J.P. Riley, The History of the Sherborne School Cadet Force, 1888-1988 (Sherborne: Shelleys, 1988)
David S. SMART.
Assistant master (mathematics), Sherborne School, 1967-2004.
David Smart, Linear Algebra and Geometry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988). Signed by the author.
Nowell Charles SMITH (1871-1961)
Headmaster of Sherborne School, 1909-1927.
Nowell Charles Smith, The Call to Service: Our Boyhood’s Debt to Those Who Saved England for Them. A Sermon preached in Sherborne School Chapel on Sunday, November 11th, 1923 (Armistice Day) by Nowell Smith, M.A., Headmaster. Any profits arising from the sale of this Sermon will be given to Lord Haig’s Fund for Ex-Service Men. (Sherborne: F. Bennett & Co. Ltd., 1923)
Nowell Charles Smith, Masaryk: The Teacher as Statesman, a lecture delivered in Abercromby House in the University of Liverpool on 10 June 1932 (Printed by C. Tinling & Co., Ltd., Liverpool)
Nowell C. Smith (ed.), The Letters of Sydney Smith (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953), Vols. 1 & 2. Presented to Sherborne School by the Editor [Nowell Smith], January 1954.
Nowell Charles Smith, Members One of Another. Sermons Preached in Sherborne School Chapel (London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1913). Inscribed by D.B. Eperson.
Nowell C. Smith (ed.), Old Shirburnian Navy & Army List, 1914-1919, with a preface by Nowell Smith (Sherborne: F. Bennett & Co. Ltd., 3rd ed., 1921)
Oliver Holt, Nowell Smith and his Sherborne: A Memoir (Oxford: Oxonian Press, 1955)
Peter SUCH.
Modern Languages Master, Sherborne School, 1980-2011.
Peter Such, Confessions of an English Alcalde: A Cautionary Tale (The Choir Press, 2021)
Peter TAIT
Headmaster of Sherborne Prep School 1998-2015.
Peter Tait, Thomas Hardy’s Women in Life and Literature (Halsgrove, 2020)
Littleton C. Powys, The Joy of It. With an introduction by Peter Tait (Sherborne: The Sundial Press, 2010)
Alexander Hamelin TRELAWNY-ROSS (1884-1967) (OS)
Assistant master, Sherborne School, 1911-1946.
A.H. Trelawny-Ross, Their Prime of Life, A Public School Study (Winchester: The Wykeham Press, 1956)
A.H. Trelawny-Ross, Fifty Years: Being the Main Decisions of the Sherborne Games Committee (1884-1934), together with Some Relevant Memoranda and an Outline of the Development of Games Organization (c.1934)
Simon TREMEWAN
Assistant master (Classics), Sherborne School, 1988-2018.
Kenneth Dover and Simon Tremewan, Aristophanes Clouds, Acharnians, Lysistrata. A Companion to the Penguin translation of Alan H. Sommerstein with introduction and commentary by Sir Kenneth Dover and Simon Tremewan (Bristol Classic Press, 1989)
Alexander Ross WALLACE (1891-1982)
Headmaster of Sherborne School, 1934-1950.
A.R. Wallace, Christian Focus (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955)
A.R. Wallace, A Conversation about Christianity (London: John Gifford Ltd., 1946)
A.R. Wallace, The Three Pillars (London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1940). With best wishes from the author, October 1940.
A.B. Gourlay & D.F. Gibbs, Chief. A Biography of Alexander Ross Wallace 1891-1982 (Sherborne: Sherborne School, 1983)
Geoffrey John Bromehead WATKINS (1907-1992)
Assistant master (French, English, German), Sherborne School, 1930-1968.
G.J.B. Watkins, From Normandy to the Weser. The War History of the Fourth Battalion the Dorset Regiment, June 1944-May 1945 (n.d)
Frederick Brooke WESTCOTT (1857-1918)
Headmaster of Sherborne School, 1892-1908.
Brooke Foss Westcott, An Introduction to the Study of the Gospels (Cambridge & London: Macmillan & Co., 1881). [written by the father of Frederick Brooke Westcott]
Frederick Brooke Westcott, St Paul and Justification being an Exposition of the Teaching in the Epistles to Rome and Galatia (London: Macmillan & Co., 1913). Presented to Sherborne School library in 1920 in memory of F.B. Westcott.
Benjamin Linley WILD.
Assistant master (history) 2009-2019.
B.L. Wild, Carnival to Catwalk: Global Reflections on Fancy Dress Costume (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 6 February 2020)
William Beauchamp WILDMAN (1852-1922)
Assistant master (Senior Classical Master), Sherborne School, 1877-1919.
H.C. Hughes & W.B. Wildman (eds.), A Guide to the Neighbourhood of Sherborne and Yeovil (Sherborne: Sherborne School Archaeological Society, 1911). Signed by S.F. Highmore.
W.B. Wildman, King Alfred’s Boyhood, and the Date of His Death (Sherborne: 1898). Inscribed ‘Best Love. WBW. 30.3.98’.
W.B. Wildman, Life of S. Ealdhelm. First Bishop of Sherborne (London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1905). Formerly owned by Arthur Field.
W.B. Wildman, Life of S. Ealdhelm. First Bishop of Sherborne (London: 1905). Inscribed ‘W.M. Wildman from W.B. Wildman, 23rd March 1905.’
W.B. Wildman, A Short History of Sherborne from 705 A.D. (Sherborne: F. Bennett, 1896) No.1 of limited edition of 100 copies. Signed W.B. Wildman.
W.B. Wildman, A Short History of Sherborne from 705 A.D. (Sherborne: F. Bennett, 1896) No. 8 of a limited edition of 100 copies.
W.B. Wildman, A Short History of Sherborne from 705 A.D. (Sherborne: F. Bennett, 1896). No. 23 of a limited edition of 100 copies.
W.B. Wildman, A Short History of Sherborne from 705 A.D. (Sherborne: F. Bennett, 2nd ed., 1902). Inscribed ‘To Grannie from W.B. Wildman, 11 June 1902’. No. 3 of a limited edition of 130.
W.B. Wildman, A Short History of Sherborne from 705 A.D. (Sherborne: F. Bennett, 2nd ed., 1902). Inscribed ‘W. Mabel Wildman from W.B. Wildman, 5th June 1902’. No. 1 of a limited edition of 130.
W.B. Wildman, A Short History of Sherborne from 705 A.D. (Sherborne: The Abbey Book Shop, 1911, 3rd ed., 1911). Formerly the property of W.J. Bensly. With annotations by W.J. Bensly.
W.B. Wildman, A Short History of Sherborne from 705 A.D. (Sherborne: The Abbey Book Shop, 3rd ed., 1911) inscribed ‘Winifred Mabel Wildman from W.B.W. St. James’s Day 1911’. No. 1 of a limited edition of 100 copies.
W.B. Wildman, A Short History of Sherborne from 705 A.D. (Sherborne: The Abbey Book Shop, 3rd ed., 1911) signed and annotated by W.B. Wildman. No.51 of a limited edition of 100 copies.
W.B. Wildman, A Short History of Sherborne from 705 A.D. Town and Abbey Section (Sherborne: The Abbey Book Shop, 4th ed., 1930). Edited by J.W.B and W.J. Bensly.
W.B. Wildman, A Short History of Sherborne from 705 A.D. School Section (Sherborne: The Abbey Book Shop, 4th ed., 1930). Edited by J.W.B and W.J. Bensly.
Edward Mallet YOUNG (1839-1900)
Headmaster of Sherborne School, 1878-1892.
Edward M. Young, Apis Matina. Verses Translated and Original by Edward M. Young (Cambridge:, Macmillan & Bowes, 1900)
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